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Bringing the Bethnal Green disaster to light
The government tried to keep the details of the Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster of 1943 private – but a court case brought the terrible story to light.
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Inland Waterways Redevelopment Advisory Committee: circulated papers
Catalogue reference: MT 88/30
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This record is about the Inland Waterways Redevelopment Advisory Committee: circulated papers dating from 1959-1961 in the series Ministry of Transport: Nationalised Transport (NTB Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MT 88/30
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1959-1961
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Description (What the record is about)
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Inland Waterways Redevelopment Advisory Committee: circulated papers
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- NTB 13/5/040
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Transport management
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1446434/
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MT 88
Ministry of Transport: Nationalised Transport (NTB Series) Files
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On one tragic night in March 1943 in Bethnal Green, East London, 173 people lost their lives taking shelter from German bombing as the air raid sirens sounded.
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